Chronic, which isn't contagious but means your airways are inflamed for a long time with symptoms that last at least 3 months and recurring over 2 years. Chronic bronchitis is a serious lung disease that is one type of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Acute, which can last for...
February 4th is World Cancer Day, and the theme for this year is "Close the Care Gap." Cancer is a chronic disease, a multifactorial, multistage, and complex progressive process, with carcinogens including genetics, immunity, lifestyle, etc. Therefore, everyone can make a difference, develop g...
From bronchodilators to lung surgery, WebMD shows you the most common treatments for chronic obstructive lung disease.
“We have the power to prevent about 80% of chronic disease through simple lifestyle habits and of those, nutrition is at the top of the list,” she continued. Foods and eating patterns fall into three different categories: healthful, d...
Don’t shrug it off as simply being out of shape. Swedish researchers recently found that shortness of breath on exertion can be an overlooked symptom of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a term now used to describe a group of progressive lung diseases including emphysema and chronic...
status asthmatics, which can lead to respiratory failures, respiratory acidosis, pulmonary encephalopathy and other serious complications, and further affect heart which is life-threatening. Therefore, we need to understand the c...
Hypercapnic ARF in patients with obesity can not only be part of the clinical course of cardiogenic pulmonary edema, pneumonia, asthma, and exacerbation of chronic lung diseases, but also may be due to exacerbation of obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) [40]. Positive airway pressure, i.e. ...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disorder that can leave people breathless, fatigued, and struggling to breathe well. If you have COPD, you may sometimes have great difficulty catching your breath after walking or exercise. You may also find that you are breathless just sit...
People with weakened immune systems due to HIV infection,cancer,liverdisease, orchemotherapy People with chroniclung disease How to Test for Mold in House If you can see mold, you already know you have mold. Many experts, including those at the Environmental Protection Agency and the CDC, say...
Our aim was to evaluate the main risk factors for the development of ARDS and to construct a preoperative risk score, in order to prevent its insurgence. 2. Materials and Methods In accordance with the STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology) statement [20],...